A consulting engineer and developer of the X1Plus custom firmware and X1Plus Expander board for the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, Joshua Wise shares his thoughts on Bambu Lab's current path, and suggests an alternative.
How about Kapton tape, painters tape, Ultrabase... IKEA mirrors? Over the years, the advice has changed. We just updated our guide to help you find a suitable build plate.
For most new printer users, I'd wager it's the print bed that came with the printer and nothing else. Print beds today are pretty well tuned to the majority of materials, but are still consumable. You'll need to replace it at some point in its life, but have the manufacturer defaults gotten so good there's no room to experiment with others? Are you still using the bed that came with your printer, or have you replaced it?
The company announced this week that it has taken on developer Radu "Ratdoux", who popularized the new color mixing technique that manufacturers are scrambling to introduce to their slicers.
What does this mean? Well, it's all open source, so whatever Snapmaker puts out will be a part of its open Snapmaker Orca slicer. The company is banking on this being a significant feature, potentially even influencing the make up of the next generation of hardware, we reckon.
Explore our guide to the best PETG filament on the market, and find the right brand for your needs and budget.
New unofficial Prusa MacOS desktop app brings your locally connected 3D printer directly to your Mac’s status bar, giving you at-a-glance updates, webcam feed, and even one-click Home Assistant triggers right from your desktop.
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We’re putting Protopasta’s new High Impact Carbon Fiber PCTG to the test, and honestly? It’s just flexing at this point. We’re printing a heavy-duty, snap-close broom holder (a remix by Simple£D on MakerWorld), and the print process has been pretty flawless and effortless on our lab's Prusa CoreOne L. Carbon fiber strength with zero drama? So far, we’re impressed. More on PCTG coming this week.
Discover five essential practices that will help you achieve "first-pass-right" sheet metal designs, avoid costly rework, and streamline your fabrication process.
Bambu Lab’s critics continue to line up to take shots at the company. Following the company's pressure to take an OrcaSlicer fork that restores the connection to its cloud service offline, attention has sharpened onto an alleged AGPL license violation that may have lived within Bambu Studio since its launch in 2022. Bambu Lab contests this.
This new additive material offers food-processing plants a rapid, cost-effective method to produce custom gaskets, seals, and production-line parts at fraction of the time of traditional manufacturing.
Industrial-grade precision meets accessible pricing. The handheld VoxMeta H1 Pro aims to replace five-figure industrial systems for professional workflows.
There’s a big market for 3D printed items. But before selling them, understand what things you can and can’t 3D print and sell with our updated guide.
From custom star maps to personalized keychains, Atomm CraftLab Generators lets you design, preview, and export production files in seconds, no software needed.
After a 3D printed turbine prototype successfully passed a grueling six-year continuous operational test, the ORNL-backed technology is now ready to scale, offering a cost-cutting blueprint to unlock clean energy at thousands of U.S. dams.
Between FullSpectrum slicer in March, Bambu Lab integrating it directly into its software, and new tools like ColorStack making it possible to print color texture data directly on a regular 3D printer, things are looking vibrant in desktop 3D printing.
And it's all possible from software that can interpolate between different color filaments – having them optically blend to give the appearance of another color altogether. Some folks are pushing it far, but right now it's too wasteful to do without a toolchanger. Say toolchangers become the standard one day – are you on board with it?
Send your 3D printed scrap to one of these services for a new life as recycled filament or useful plastic products.
The Lumos Ultra integrates 6W UV and 60W/100W MOPA laser technology to deliver high-precision engraving, metal processing, and advanced finishing capabilities for makers and small businesses.
By integrating Meltio’s metal wire DED technology, Italian specialist Eurobearings is replacing weeks of traditional machining and welding with days of additive manufacturing to repair and produce massive industrial components.
and with it, the groundwork to make the effect repeatable and consistent. This model on MakerWorld shows off 292 distinct printable colors from five source PLA filaments – cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and white – printed on a Bambu Lab H2C. The project comes with a recipe book of sorts, describing the precise ratios to reproduce each color, helpfully split out into palettes, including skin tones.
With a massive 800mm build volume and a 3kg/hour extrusion rate, Peopoly’s pellet-fed disruptor is built to slash material costs by 90% and replace expensive industrial systems.